The biggest limitation to cell phone cameras is the cell phone display. Panning around a couple of hundred pixels of a hi-res image doesn't really do it. OK, if you click your friends it is nice that their faces show up with an incoming call. However, the sense of real presence is still mediocre at best.
But what if the cell phone could go beyond the screen? Literarily...
Mitsubishi Electronics says it can -- they are looking at smart and intelligent ways to add a miniature projector to the cell phone.
Imagine having larger images come down -- either pushed from another phone or pulled from an on-line album -- and be projected on to a wall, say the dimension of four letter-sized sheets of paper.
That would bring information sharing and true collaboration one big step further, allowing the cell-phone based cameras to add to the real communication. Rather than looking for details never available in a stamp-sized original there would be a wall of information upon which the e-Presence could gain additional traction.
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